Also improved the TV deal, will likely get an ACC Network, and can renegotiate the deal in 5 years if FSU and Miami can pull their thumbs out of their butts by then and make the conference more valuable. John Swofford, despite the protestations of the internet, knows what he is doing.

He'll find a new oracle of doom to follow now that Dude and the WVU Scout board have been disgraced.

Nope. I'm happy. I never doubted Swofford or the ACC.

Sorry, you've spent the last 2 years driving me insane with links and references to things written on WVU message boards and coded messages where random letters were capitalized and waving away everything I've said or written with "Dude tells me this will happen, and I believe him and your logic means nothing". I'm not letting you off that easily.

He'll find a new oracle of doom to follow now that Dude and the WVU Scout board have been disgraced.

Nope. I'm happy. I never doubted Swofford or the ACC.

Sorry, you've spent the last 2 years driving me insane with links and references to things written on WVU message boards and coded messages where random letters were capitalized and waving away everything I've said or written with "Dude tells me this will happen, and I believe him and your logic means nothing". I'm not letting you off that easily.

The Big Ten was going to pilfer some combination of Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia Tech. Virginia Tech and North Carolina State were SEC-bound, with Florida State and Clemson headed to the Big 12.

The chatter was loud, it was incessant, and it was fueled by media, fans and rival leagues.

No matter that it was shallow, ill-informed and just plain wrong. Only one event could silence the speculation: a grant of media rights.

Of course, it still hasn't silenced the remaining True Believers, which just makes it all the sweeter. It's also great because FSU fans are absolutely miserable. I don't know whose tears I enjoy more.

Greg Swaim Show ‏@GSwaim 4hThis #ACC news is the best I've had in a while...it wouldn't bother me if I never had to talk expansion ever again!! #MoveOn

Sure, Greg. You were a nobody who gained a sliver of attention by saying you had sources saying Clemson and FSU were off to the Big 12. You'd be irrelevant if you hadn't jumped in bed with the WVU Reverse Cassandras. Who else promised a big move? I want to read their backtracking.

That's the thread you want as it has almost all the WVU "insiders" making insane proclamations within the past two days -- for example the dude proclaims on April 19 that the ACC is about to lose "4-6 schools minimum."

That's the thread you want as it has almost all the WVU "insiders" making insane proclamations within the past two days -- for example the dude proclaims on April 19 that the ACC is about to lose "4-6 schools minimum."

It feels weird to fly the "Mission Accomplished" banner. After all of NAN's dire predictions and claims that he didn't believe the drivel he took from insiders, after the way these posts were treated like Pulitzer-level reporting, after debunking everything, after all of it...I feel a little empty. I may need to start a flame war with someone to fill the void in my life.

Wait, did I see someone now thinks the B1G will target Vandy? Maybe my life is still worth living. Come on, Dude- find a way to make this work so somehow it ends with the B1G poaching ACC teams. Don't give up the fight so easily! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?